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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe they are lazy, maybe they don’t care, maybe they know as any reasonably informed person does that the VAST majority of plastic isn’t getting recycled it’s buried or burned.

I put most of the plastic stuff in the recycle bin because we pay per bag of trash but there is no charge to fill the recycle bin (red flag) so it’s a savings to ‘recycle.’ I will not waste water cleaning plastic containers as the guidelines require because I know they are getting buried or burned so it would be worse ecologically to waste the water, I think.

The recycling system was built on a trinity of REDUCE, REUSE, recycle. Most of America is stuck on the recycle and pats themselves on the back that they’ve been good doobies because they put all that plastic they buy into a bin so it could go away and not be their problem anymore. What they need to do is stop buying it, but in fairness it is nearly impossible to avoid plastic in the purchasing of food in America today. We need to demand that corporations change modalities but there isn’t any pressure to do that because we have our endless bins of recycling out at the curb whisking our plastic crap to a magical fairy place where it becomes something else without polluting our environment. Ha.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse[/quote]

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